Gaming

30556 readers

476 users here now

From video gaming to card games and stuff in between, if it's gaming you can probably discuss it here!

Please Note: Gaming memes are permitted to be posted on Meme Mondays, but will otherwise be removed in an effort to allow other discussions to take place.

See also Gaming's sister community Tabletop Gaming.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

124

Videogame fantasy settings are staler than mouldy bread right now (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

52 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Partly why Shadow of the Colossus was eerily beautiful, it didn't depend on any kind of pre-existing mythology

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Exactly my thinking for Horizon. These studios are pumping so much money into mechanics and graphics, I wish they would put similar resources into story and lore.

[–] MagicShel 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wanted to bring up Horizon but I thought people would quibble over post apocalyptic vs fantasy. But really, if you're going to quibble about that then you're already blind to how beholden you are to fantasy tropes and are rejecting things that are genuinely new and different because they are different "wrong."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Fantasy world that turns out to be post-Apocalypse Earth is a pretty old trope.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I was very pleased with the world-building and lore in Horizon: ZD! The cultures and different factions felt genuinely unique and novel.